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Harkavy Residence, Potomac, Md.

Merit Award: Custom Detail

Anice HoachlanderRed Balau boards screen the master suite of this semi-rural home without isolating it from its site. The resulting sheltered deck terminates in an outdoor shower.

Much of the ground floor of this exurban house opens to its wooded site via floor-to-ceiling glass. To protect the modesty of the master suite and its outdoor shower, architect Robert M. Gurney and project designer Brian Tuskey penned this wafer-thin “scrim wall.” Its thin steel framework supports slats of Red Balau, spaced to provide both privacy and glimpses through the trees.
Along with the visual economy of the assembly, our judges admired its “really detailed hardware.”